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A SOUFFLÉ OF SUSPICION

Book 2 in the French Bistro Mysteries

by Daryl Wood Gerber

The buoyant mood at Bistro Rousseau deflates when Chef Camille’s sister, Renee, turns up dead in the chef’s kitchen, and Mimi Rousseau must tease the real killer out of a mélange of menacing characters.Crush Week in Nouvelle Vie is a madhouse―in a good way. Tourists pour into town for the pressing of the Napa Valley’s world-renowned grapes and all the town’s businesses get a nice lift, including Bistro and Maison Rousseau. Mimi is raising the ante this year with a Sweet Treats Festival, a wonderland of croissants, cakes, tarts, and soufflés crafted with expert care by the area’s top talents. Chef Camille’s sister Renee is managing the festival with a cast-iron fist, upsetting everyone, including her sister. Which is bad for Camille when Renee turns up dead in the chef’s kitchen. Mimi is still building her business, so her first course of action is to whip up answers and catch the unsavory perpetrator before Camille takes a dusting and gets burned.

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BROCHETTE D’AGNEAU À LA GRECQUE

The sauce for these kebabs is so flavorful. I’m not sure if it’s because of the lime juice or the grapefruit juice or the Greek yogurt, but it really tenderizes the meat and offers a lovely Mediterranean flavor to the dish. I might use this sauce on chicken or fish, as well. Salmon in particular. Enjoy.

This would work equally well with chicken, for those of you who don’t like lamb.

 (serves 2)

Ingredients

1 pound lamb meat, cut into 1 ½” cubes

1 yellow pepper, cut into squares

1 zucchini, cut into 8 thick slices

1 red onion, quartered

Sauce ingredients:

2 tablespoons freshly squeeze orange juice

2 tablespoons freshly squeezed limejuice

2 tablespoons grapefruit juice

2 tablespoons honey

1/2 cup plain Greek yogurt

2 tablespoons olive oil

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon ground pepper

1 teaspoon fresh rosemary, crushed (stems removed)

Pam or olive oil for grill

For the sauce, in a small bowl, mix the orange juice, limejuice, grapefruit juice, honey, Greek yogurt, olive oil, salt, pepper, and rosemary. Stir well.

Cut the lamb into cubes, about 1 1/2” in size. If they’re too big, they won’t cook evenly on the grill. Tenderize the lamb meat by pounding with a meat tenderizer mallet. Set the lamb in a 13 x 9 pan. Pour the marinade over the lamb, coating on all sides. Wrap and chill for 2 hours.

When ready to barbecue:

Skewer the kebab using lamb, pepper, zucchini, and onion. Repeat. (You might want to break the onion into smaller parts.) Brush the kebab on all sides with remaining marinade.

Heat a barbecue grill to medium high (about 400 degrees). Spray the grill with olive oil Pam or baste with olive oil.

Set the kebabs on the grill and cook for 3 minutes. Turn. Cook another 3 minutes. Turn.  Cook another 3 minutes. 

For medium rare, cook a total of 9-10 minutes.  For medium, cook a total of 11-12 minutes. For medium well, cook a total of 13-14 minutes.

Remove from heat. 

Present the dish either on the skewer or slide it off the skewer and plate accordingly.

MY REVIEW

When I finished book one in this series, A DEADLY ÉCLAIR, I wasn’t sure how I was going to wait for the second installment. Now having read, A SOUFFLÉ OF SUSPICION, it was well worth the wait! But how do I last until the next one!

It was fun to be back in wine country with Mimi Rousseau and the great cast of characters in the French Bistro Mysteries. Author Daryl Wood Gerber has written them all in a way that makes me feel I personally know each one them. She has done the same for the setting. While reading, I can vividly see my surroundings. I can hear the sounds and smell the food.

As for the mystery in, A SOUFFLÉ OF SUSPICION, it was top notch, with a fair amount if suspects, as well as red herrings. Just when I thought for sure I knew who the killer was, another twist was thrown in to foil me.

You’ll also find an amazing variety of recipes to enjoy. I honestly think I gained weight just reading them!

Fans of the first book will love this second trip to Napa Valley. Haven’t read the first? No worries. You can read A SOUFFLÉ OF SUSPICION as a standalone (But get them both and read them back to back. More fun that way!)

About the Author

Agatha Award-winning Daryl Wood Gerber is best known for her nationally bestselling Cookbook Nook Mysteries and CHEESE SHOP MYSTERIES, which she pens as Avery Aames. She will soon debut the new French Bistro Mysteries. Daryl also writes stand-alone suspense: DAYS OF SECRETS and GIRL ON THE RUN. Fun tidbit: as an actress, Daryl appeared in “Murder, She Wrote.” She loves to cook, and she has a frisky Goldendoodle named Sparky who keeps her in line!

Author Links Visit Daryl or Avery at

www.darylwoodgerber.com 

Daryl’s Blog – Avery’s Blog – Mystery Lover’s Kitchen – Killer Characters – Facebook: Daryl Avery 

Twitter: @AveryAames @DarylWoodGerber 

Goodreads: Daryl Wood Gerber Avery Aames 

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